THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929.
NANKING AID TO ABERDEEN FLEET NOT
MUKDEN.
TROOPS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
FRONTIER SITUATION.
Nauking, Aug. 23.
TRACED.
(Continued from Page (1.)
WEST HAM MADE SOLVENT.
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£344,000 DEFICIT NOW £164,000 SURPLUS.
at 11.50 a.m. At 11.46 on Thurs day, five minutes before gale force
When, in 1926, the elected guar- was reached in Hongkong, orders dians of West Ham were supersed were given to hoist the No. 7ed by three appointed by the Signal and to fire the bombs, thus Ministry of Health, there was a preparing the Colony for the worst deficit in the Union of C344,320. Sustained typhoon force occurred
WOMAN KILLED IN
THE ALPS.
300FT. FALL TO DEATH
ON ROCKS.
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The Very Idea!
A J. Richardson, sixty-seven, Britain's so-called oldest airman, mate a lone flight from Norwich to Rotterdam, Holland, and back re cently,
An afternoon walk taken by three Englishwomen, who arrived at Wilderswil, a village 21⁄2 milos from Interlaken, Switzerland, July 14, ended the tragic death of one of them, here just before 1 pm, and in the These three appointed guar- Mrs. K. C. B. Furniss, whose over the sea." the National Government is pro- circumstances it would have been diana, complete their tenure of of-mother lives in Sandmere-road, years ago because, having given up |
sheer waste of time to hoist thefice at the end of this mouth, and Clapham. No. 6 Signal, with a typhoon are able to report a surplus to Her sister. Mrs, Bartaby Smith, rapidly approaching the Colony, date of £164,807.
It is semi-ofcially stated, that
pared to dispatch all the Nanking troops in Honan, Shantung and Chilli Provinces into Manchuria to nagjat General Chang Hauch- Hang in defending the frontiers.
The Morning Post correspondent intimates that the No. 6 Signal
The report is signed by Sir
Ho acorned the diasunding pleas of his fellow airmen, saying:
"Don't talk to me about nerve. it doesn't take much courage to fly
Richardson learned to fly two
farming, he "had nothing clac to
do."
A man in the Belfast union in-
Wha Injured, while the third woman, Miss Laver, was unhurt.
The necident In this connexion, it is anticipated should have been hoisted at 10/Alfred Woodgate, chairman; Mr. the manager of the Jungfrau around in a daze and can only re-
is described by that extensive troop movements a.m., before even gale force was. Topping and Mr. C. S. Petheram, Hotel, at Wilderswil, where. the call incidents happening in the past |
will take place on the Peking-ranched here. I disagree." Hankow and Tientsin-Pukow Lines during the coming week;
$2,000,000 For Mukden..
Six Chinese Drowned During Voyage.
Six persons on board a cargo To finance the Manchurian junk, No. 1698, the Kwok Shing troops, the National Government | Hop, were drowned during the has ordered the Finance. Miniatry | typhoon on Thursday afternoon, to send $2,000,000 to General while on the voyage from Canton Chang Hauch-liang,
La Hongkong with cargo of bricka. According to a Chinese source, the junk had 12 persons on board with 70,000 bricks, the vessel itself being 2,488 pleuls in capacity.
The National Government has been informed by "intelligence" that the Russians have so far sent 80,000 men to the Chinese-Soviet frontiers.
Anti-Soviet Army.
swamped by big waves and satik.
The junk encountered the storm in Ching Wan waters, about 2.10 Shanghai, Aug. 23.
p.m. and realising the peril he A message from Mukden states was in the master took steps, to that following an important mill-throw all the bricks into the sea tary conference at which Inea- to save his vessel. While this sures dealing with the situation was proceeding the Junk was on the Sino-Rusalan border were adopted. Chang Tso-hsiang, the Governut of Kirin, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the newly- organised anti-Soviet army. 11 Cheng-chun, the Nanking Govern ment's special representative, par ticipated in the deliberations.
A Nanking message says Chin Yau-yen, the special representa tive of Chang Hsuch-llang, arrived yesterday from Mukden to report on conditions in Manchuria rela- tive to the Sino-Soviet diapule. -Reuter,
Object of Ruide,
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Of the six persons drowned three were women and the others young girls between 8 and years old. The six persons saved were the master and mistress of the junk as well as four fokis. It is understood that they caught hold of the wreckage of the vessel and drifled until shortly before dawn yesterday, when they were picked up by fishing junks, and arrived in Hongkong at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Масло Escapes,
Relief Policy.
vialtors were staying.
"It was in no sense a climbing Although the Ministry of Health neeident," he said. has expressed no desire for a "Mrs. Furniss, with her sister further report, the appointed and her friend, decided to go for guardians consider it essential, a short walk on Monday afternoon "on historical grounds "alang," to Tschingelduh, which is not more that the results of their adminis- than half a mile from the hotel. tration should be on permanent re- cord.
Their policy, they say, briefly stated, has been:
On the Verge.
"It began to rnin' heavily soon after, and about 4.30 they decided to return.
firmary, about 30 years old, walks
year. "Matt" as he is known, has heen subjected to drugs in an en deavour to induce him to talk about himself during a stupor, The only inkling to his identity is the fact that he seema familiar with the duties of a chemist. Other than that his mind is blank.
There was once on Aberdonian child who shot his parents so that he could go to the orphans' pienic,
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That each application for re-i lief should be denkt with on ite "While walking on very wet One of the paradoxes of the new merits; that in the case of out-grass Mr. Furniss" slipped on era in Turkey is the masquerading door relief to the able-bodie:lome leaves and fell over the edge of men as women to get work.
of the track on to some rocks. Fourteen young men who, dis- unemployed the amount given,
"She remained balanced on the guised as women, had obtained jobs while relieving destitution, should not be such as to deter dge for a second, and then fell in a tobacco depot in Smyrna, were from the rocks to lower ground,} arrested by the Turkish police. the applicant from preferring about 300 feet below.
The ye th explained that the short- employment, and generally that)
"Mrs. Smith made a desperate | age of jobs for men had forced them the obligations of table rela-effort to reach her sister, and very into skirts, tives should be fully consider early met with the same fate.
"But for the fact that her clothing became entangled in the branches of a small pine, tree she The following table shows the would have been killed. reduction in numbers and cost of "Miss Laver rushed for help. those receiving outdoor relief, in-and returned with villagers who cluding both "permanent" and were able to resene both women "unemployed" cases, since the ap with ropes.
cil.
Numbers and Cost Reduced.
painted guardians resumed office: "Unhappily, Mrs. Furnias, who Further evidence has been ob-had a broken arm and a broken tained, it is stated, that the great leg, died some time after, 'majority of the unemployed who had ceased to apply for relief had obtained work.
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Encouraged to Get Work.
AMERICAN STOCKS.
NEW YORK.
The latest position of the Peking, Aug. 23.
typhoon, issued Thursday To effect the closing up of the evening, placed the typhoon in the The board (the appointed guar- CABLED QUOTATIONS FROM coal mines in Chalanor, in the west,
vicinity of Maeng and yesterday dians state) is of opinion that it at Muling, in the cast, is reported it was considered likely that the has largely removed the spirit of to be the object of the Soviet's Portuguese Colony had suffered a difference in regard to the ques organtsed military raids across good deal of damage. Fears weretion of obtaining employment even these borders, us this would paralyse the C. E. R., which draws rest however, laut évening, among the cases now on relief, 1 its entire coal supply from these when the s.s. Sai Tai arrived from large percentage nines, the only other source in Macau, having left Hongkong at long-standing cases, Manchuria being the S.M.R. mines eight o'clock in the morning.
at Fushun
The Chinese appear to appreciate this as practically all the troops How on the borders are concentrat
ed in these areas,
troops
It is learned from the Harbarovsk region that for a thousand miles along the Amur the only Chinese are a garrism of three thousand men at Tabeibo, whose position is prerarlous owing to the difficulty of getting up supplies from Tuifihar.
Chinese reports from Harbin state that the Russians are still accupying Tungning, southward of Suifenho-Reuter
Japanese Views.
Tokyo, Aug. 23. Despite the Increasing fre quency of clashes between the Chinese and Soviet troops official eireles continue optimistic that an actual outbreak of hosilitics is very unlikely.
It is thought probable that a basis for the opening of formal negotiations will be reached be- fore long by the Soviet agreeing to appoint new bureau chiefs for the Chinese Eastern Railway.
While reports of border clashes appear to be true in subatanee, it is intimated that little faith
of whom
Women, because of their dexterity in sorting leaves, are in greater demand than men among the to- bacco companies,
Two boys went into a telephone booth and, while one of them wait ed, the other rang up an offer la the city and asked if they wanted an office boy,
"No, "came the reply, "we've got
one.
"Bui," asked the boy on the phone, "perhaps you'll be wanting one next week?"
"No," said the city firm, "we've got a boy."
"Would you want a boy the week after, that?" persisted the boy,
"No," boomed the employer's voice, "we've got a boy and we're quite satisfied.
"Will you be wantin an office boy in three months, then?"
"No! no!" And the city man hung
The following quotations as at the clase of the market on Friday have been received from their corred are pondents Mesura, luyden, Stone and Co. of New York, by Mesars. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz, Sassoon House, up.
"Well," asked the other of the Shanghai (enble address: "Swan-
onsible for the cable mutilations.know you were looking for a job?" #Lock," Shanghai), who are not res boy who had phoned, "I didn't The quotations are subject to con- "I'm not," replied the first, "I just thought I'd 'phone the office and Previous Latest And out how I stood with my firm."
Price. Price. 121
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The guardians, consider that According to the officers of the this consistent encouragement vessel little or no damage was get work, combined with a lendy done in the Portuguese Colony, adherence to a strict administra-firmation: the wind force being estimated at tion of relfer to the able-bodied about 70 miles an hour. A strong unemployed, will result in the wind
was maintained from practical elimination of this claas Ananda Copper o'clock until two o'clock, and of recipient of relief from the re Bultimore and Ohio. 138 carried away bricks from roofs, Reving officers' book." occasional sign boards and a fow anall trees.
Bethlehem Steel
One of the foreign hotels had a few slates ripped from the roof the fire there was still burning, but the matsheds on the new re- though by that time it was partly Generally Rly. Signal 120 clamation withstood the blow, Au under control.
Goodyear Tyre
Rubber a precaution the Chinese restaur-
Granby
Consolidated ants, boarding houses and theatres
Copper were closed, and residents of the Colony took the usual precautions
Shiahing Pagoda..
hing Pagoda, built several hun-
to prevent, danige us far as vos-dred years ago during the Ming sible.
Gunboats Sunk.
Canton, Aug. 23. The Cantonese gunboats Kong Koo and Feipang sank in the Suntak district during yesterday's typhoon.
Over ten members of their crews were drowned.
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Mother: "Mary Ann, what is a guitar?"
Little Daughter (after much pon- : dering): "I guess it's a ukulele's
papa.
He smashed the eggs in my hair so I gave him the chips-A woman witness at the Old Bailey.
Debtor at Bow County Court: I am out of work just now, at least not exactly out of work as I am on the Labour Exchange.
Prisoner at Highgate:
I gave
them a song when I was in the cells
133
130
137
Chrysler Corp. (Com-
1011) General Motor (Com-
mon)
78
71
75
70
121
and
109
109
79
70
It is understood that the Shiu-techinuional Cement
(Com
souri Pacific (Com- mon)
74
73
and Myers "13"
93
02
92
452
and that proves I was drunk.
Consolidated
I do not mind my face being torn
-15
15
gers being bitten.-A woman
91
10
North London.
44
44
72
173
Solicitor at Bow County Court: This has resulted in a checkmate fur you?
148
147
69
70
280
122
127
ung.
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Dynasty, had a narrow escapo from being destroyed by the fire, which swept through the vicinity of the Pagoda.
lower course of the West River It is further reported that In the from Kowkong to Shishing quite a number of cargo junks and small craft were sunk during the ties are not known at present.
It is learned also that Takhing age boat capsized, and the loss was devastated by the typhoon. of life is supposedly heavy,
A Canton-bound Shinhing pass-
J
Over Thirty Lives' Lost, Another report slates that a
is placed in either Chinese or considerable sensation was caused Soviel charges and counter-in Canton when it was learned charges. It is a case of six of that the two gunboats, which one and half a dozen of the other, were anchored in the Tai Leung Regarding the recent reports river, in Kwangtung, had found- of friction between Nanking and ed during the typhoon which Mukden, the official view appears swept through Tal Leung to be that Mukden acted too much Thursday evening... on its own at the outset, but it
is believed that she is now more
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Over thirty of the naval men were
On board the two vessels
or less toeing the line and follow-rowned, according to a Canton
ing Nanking's instructions.
- Reuter.
Denial of Increase in Garrison,
Peking, Aug. 23.
message to hand last night. The
namics of those who lost their lives are not known, and follow- ing the spread of the news there have been continuous enquiries
A member of the Japanesent the Canton Naval Department. Legation stated Lo-day in con: as to the safety of these on' board nexion with reports of further the gunboats. The number of increases in the Japanese gar men saved is believed to be very risons of Manchuria, that at small,
under present there are
eight thousand Japanese troops in all | in Manchuria, The Changchun garrison is 760 meg.-Reuter.
WATER LEVELS.
FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.
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Devastation Along West River.
The typhoon swept along the West River conet and it is believed that it directly hit Shiuhing, an important city on the West River. From seven until almost ten o'clock the populace at Shiahing had a trying time when, add- tion to the typhoon, a big firo broke out. According to Chineso passengers who arrived in Hong kong yesterday afternoon from
The following table, compiled Wuchow on board the s.a. Tai by the Board of Conservancy Ming, the big fire at Shiuhing Works of Kwangtung, shows the razed to the ground almost eighty water levels In English feet on the West, North and East Rivers Chinese residences. On the voy Ago from Wuehow the Tal. Ming on, the dates named:
Aug. 22 Aug. 23 had to put in at Lukpo, a flourish-
Shishing
Tsingyuen
Shanshul
Sheklung
24.4
10.8
10.0
35.0
6.6
5.3
ing city between Shivhing and Takhing, on the upper course of the West River, When the Tai Ming passed along Shiuhing river
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"Don't be so stingy with the ice cream, Jimmy; I haven't
had a bite of food since yesterday.".
to pieces, but I do object to my fin-
Defendant: Yes, mate.
at
Woman in assault case at Penge:
I would not hurt a cat. I have at
mother of my own.
Brigand—“Halt. If you move, you're dead."
Professor "My man, you should be more careful of your English.
If I should move, it would be a posi--
tive sign that I was alive."
DUBLIN GRAND PRIX FATALITY.
BOY HURLED BY COLLISION INTO LIFFEY.
Dublin, July 11. An extraordinary accident oc- curred in Dublin to-day and marred the preparations for the Irish International Grand Prix Motor-car Race,
The car of the famous racing driver, Basil Eyaton, wllen return- ing from weighing in, came into collision on King's Bridge, Hear the gates of the park, with a pony cart in which were the driver and Patrick Devine, aged 14.
There are
few
suitable
for small
LADIES' WEAR
AT
HALF PRICE.
Special Sale
OF
RAINCOATS
AND
BOOTS
AT
25%
OFF
Discount
REGULAR PRICES.
We have decided to offer the whole of our stock of Burberry," ** Peltiovain," * Garberdine " And other Cloths at this large sacrifice to make room for the now Autumn Goods.
All Sizes on Sale at
Wm. POWELL, Ltd.
10, Ice House Street.
Court Shoes
are shown to ANKLES
advantage in well fit- ting Court Shoes .........worn with an appropriate ensem- |ble they are de riguer,
are popular.
NEW STYLES FOR LADIES JUST RECEIVED. ALSO "START-RITE" FOR CHILDREN.
GORDON'S
KAYAMALLY BUILDING.·
TEL. C. 4052.
Before You Go into the Water.
Go to YEE SANG FAT
For a
BATHING
COSTUME
For MEN, LADIES, CHILDREN.
YEE SANG FAT.
TO-DAY ONLY.
AT THE
at 2.30, 5.20, 7.15 and 9.15
The CHINESE
PARROT
A
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LENI
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Starring MARIAN NIXON, ANNA MAY WONG NATHAN ROAD MAJESTIC
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The driver of the cart jumped clear, and was unkürt, but Devine, who was in the back of the cart, was thrown over the parapet of the bridge into the River Liffey. He disappeared, and his body has not yet been recovered, although the police have been dragging at the spot for some houre.
Baell Eyston was taken to the police station and charged with the manslaughter of Devine: Но The Mercedes driver, Thialeth was released on bail. It is un-wayte, was lapping at 81,2 m.p.h.; certain whether he will drive to Kielston, on a big Bentley that won morrow. If the Bugatt! he was the Le Mans race at 85.3 m.p.h.; driving at the time of the accident, Perkin's supercharged Bentley, is not damaged, his brother, G. E. 79.9
the big race, but Basil Byaton was also to have drlyen a Billoy In the small car race to-morrow.
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race on Saturday, therefore, ought to develop into a great three- cornered fight on handicap' ba-j tween Britain, Italy, and Germany.
Captain Malcolm, or a super- charged three-litre Sunbeam, was going well. In the small cars, which race to-morrow, Ramponi m.p.h. and Ben- (Alfa-Romeo) was lapping at T. Eyston, may take his place in jaffeld (Alfa Romeo), 76.7 The 73-m.p.h.